Windows 10: Freeze Crash and Nvidia Driver Stopped Responding

What I would do next is backup the data you can't affort to loose and go for a vanille installation (a clean installation with nothing installed and Windows Defender & Windows Update up to date)

 

Hey axe0,

I reseated all my components and cables, and I did some start up tests. There were no freezes, and I restarted 5 times to make sure.
I then coincidentally used a blue Ethernet cable instead of my original, yellow one to get access to the internet while I did some testing.
No freezes still even after restarting another 5 times.

Then, I plugged back in the original yellow Ethernet cable, restarted, and Windows froze after about 5 minutes.

I immediately went back to using the blue Ethernet cable, and its perfectly fine again. I even restarted several times again to be sure.
I also remembered that I started safe mode with networking on when I was testing yesterday, which would explain why Windows froze in safe mode as well.

I'm so dumbfounded that a bad Ethernet cable could cause Windows to hang like that.
I thought that the OS would have error checking to prevent freezes from simple things like that, or at least provide a error message to indicate which component of the OS is having a problem.

I think it's pretty silly xD What do you think about it?

 

What I think isn't relevant, you found the cause and can now anticipate on it *Smile

 

Haha, ok then, thanks a lot for your help, axe0. I learned a lot xD

I'll check back if I ever get the problem again, but I'm pretty sure this is solved for now.